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Imagine removing the number keys from your phone and calling it progress. Manufacturers build in parental controls and then the customers become children who yo
by noqc 3y ago
Imagine removing the number keys from your phone and calling it progress. Manufacturers build in parental controls and then the customers become children who you can get to do chores for you in order to unlock the right to use them. This business model should be illegal, and barring that it should at least be unpalatable to consumers, but we can't even have that for some reason.
- asoneth 3y ago> Imagine removing the number keys from your phone and calling it progress. But that's what the iPhone did, didn't it? Before that most phones (even touch-screen ones) had physical number keys, whereas the iPhone demoted the keypad/dialpad off to a secondary screen in the Phone application. For a while the only time I ever used the keypad when navigating an automated menu, but now that Android has "Direct My Call" I don't even use it for that. I'm glad that there are still phones with number keys for people who like them, but I'm equally glad it's not illegal to make products simpler for those who prefer that.
- noqc 3y agoI did not mean the physical keys.
- asoneth 3y agoAre there examples of phones that have done this, or is it a hypothetical fear? Either way, I remain glad that the government has not made it illegal for a company to remove functionality from a product.
- noqc 3y agoI'm afraid you just don't understand the structure of my comment. It's not a hypothetical fear. It's an analogy for removing functionality under the guise of curation or security.